Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schoolchild

/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English

Syllables: school-child
IPA: /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

Example Sentences

"They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups."
"[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict."
"Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it."

Etymology

From school + child.

Inflected Forms

schoolchildren (plural) school-child (alternative) school child (alternative)

Synonyms

pupil student schoolkid school-age child

Questions

How do you pronounce schoolchild?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/.
What does schoolchild mean?: A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
Where does schoolchild come from?: From school + child.

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